Photo taken from the west side of Lake McAndrews looking a the Uintah Railway's siding "McAndrews Lake". By the time this photo was taken in the late teens - early twenties, the large ice house had been moved from here and used as the ice house at Mack, Colorado. You can make out the switch stand for the siding at the left. Ice was still procured here in the winter for distribution all along the railroad, and you can see the "Ice Ramp" that was used to get the large chunks of ice up to the level of a boxcar door, sticking out in to the water. The McAndrews section house is the large building in the middle of the photograph. In the distance to the right are several smaller buildings used as summer ranching homes. Two of the Uintah's famous 65 degree curves can be tracked down in this photo. A train traveling south towards Baxter Pass would have entered the picture from the left, skirting the lake, and passing in front of the section house, travelling up grade towards the small tin roofed shed (white spot) in the center of the valley. There, the train would start up the 5% grade, and reverse directions at "Mule Shoe" curve. The train would then come back along the hillside, above the section house, through the cedar trees, and reverse directions again at the far left of the photo at "Horse Shoe" curve. A failry clear line of where the tracks were can be seen as it hugs the side of the mountain and goes around the hillside in to the valley below Columbine. A while later the same train would be seen from this vantage point, heading up the 5% grade on the side of the distant mountain (you can make out the right of way as a long horizontal black line, crossing across the snow section of the mountain in the center of the photo.
